Waste not, want not.

Chade was fairly confident of already knowing good locations for food but with the change in weather, some of his food had migrated.  Still, he found a herd of female elk that seemed fond of a forested region nestled in between a curve in the Fenrir's maw.  He didn’t choose them for his prey though, preferring something with horns for his assignment.

In the end, he had found a loan aged reindeer.  His older age was obvious with the graying muzzle and its coat looked thinner in patches.  When it moved it had a stiffness in it which offered an easier hunt for such a large animal.  Chade killed the elderly stag, now having a large animal with antlers to work with for finding uses for it.  Once dead he opened its belly, letting the blood drain out.  Once finished he put it on a small sled to pull it back to the pack land.  The meat alone would be a nice haul but he already had plans on so much more to be done with it.  

Manea wanted a demonstration but there were enough things to demonstrate that Chade decided some of the most basic parts could be done ahead of time to keep her from getting bored.  He went ahead and cut off the hide from the deer and cleaned it up.  The blue wolf went ahead and soaked the hide to for cleaning it up.  These were things that some time and yet were easy enough to describe if she even wanted to hear what he imagined were pretty basic.  A small grin crossed his features remembering being a small pup experimenting with trying to tan a hide to act as a small tent.  It had been usable but hardly worth showing off.  He’d gotten better.

With the hide cleaned up he took it still wet up higher onto the rocks near the dens.  It would both be close enough to Manea’s den that she didn’t need to go far and on a rocky surface so no concerns in setting up a fire to use for smoking the meat.  Chade grabbed some limbs for various purposes.  A stack was put where he planned to start a fire, four others were used to stretch out and somewhat nail the hide against the side of the mountain, in cracks already on the rock wall.  He had better plans for it but that would do for setup.  Finally, Chade pulled out some of the meat chunks, using a bone knife to slice in them into strips.

The preparation was good enough.  The rest of it he could show by doing.  Chade let out a howl calling for Manea to come to see his setup.


"Chade"